[foxhound]

I've been trying to make a basic website with a top, left and main frame but am bumping into tons of trouble with my stylesheets.
Basically i refer each frame to a different css using
"<LINK REL=stylesheet HREF="main.css" TYPE="text/css">"
but then i run into trouble, in my main frame i'd like to get a grey background so i added this in my main.css :
"body { background-color: #E8E8E8}"
while in my frame css files i'd like to work with images for background so i used background-image instead of background-color. neither of these work though. i've managed to get it to colour my tables, my paragraphs but not my body. really getting frustrated over this so if anyone knows how to get past this i'd really apreciate it.

thanks in advance

Foxhound.